Oh Really? - Blog

But we were supposed to see 50 million people by 2010 driven from their homes by rising oceans. It was going to be Bye-bye Bahamas and So long, St. Lucia as the tourist havens were inundated with the frothing tides of melted glaciers all because of global warming. SAo said the United Nations. So what's up with this? Where are Peter, Paul and Mary when you need them, asking the musical quetion, "Where have all the refugees gone?" ...

This would be perfectly fine if the commander in chief hadn't run for the job saying that he wouldn't be part of treating terrorists like, well terrorists, extremely dangeorus, unstable and bloodthirsty. Yet that's exactly what he's doing. So where's the outcry from the people who said it was bad for the previous commander in chief to treat terrorists like human nitroglycerine? Could it be that there was some, uh, shalel we say, bad faith? ...

The president and opposition Republicans backed nuclear power on Monday, as noted here. The president doing exactly come out himself, though. He let his staff do the talking. Plausible deniability for 2012 or just a finger in the wind? Smart money bets on the latter. ...

So the ATF called its brilliant plan to supply weaponry to gangs in Mexico. "Many ATF officers were "anguished" over Operation Fast and Furious, saying it was inevitable that guns would be used to commit crimes, thus putting blood on the ATF's hands," a story notes. Some of that blood, it turns out, was shed by a Border Patrol agent. "Anguish" probably falls well short of what others think of Operation Fast and Furious. ...

That was then, when it was a political convenience. Now, not so much. Funny, if Gitmo was actually inciting Muslims to attack the Great Satan then, why is it not now? And if it is still a clarion call to jihad, why is Gitmo still open? Surely it coouldn't have been just a campaign promise? ...

Seems that San Fran, known for its eclectic tastes, has developed an aversion to odors generated with the aid of its environmental consciousness. Low-flow toilets appear to lack the ooomph to push things along through the sewer system. And now the people who pulled the punch from the flush are unhappy that bleach might have to be employed to clean up their mess. Strangely, SF seems still to be intent on sending its effluent out into its famous bay. Kind of puts a different spin on ...